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   Stand and watch.   
      
   D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser last week announced plans to remove the large yellow   
   lettering that’s been a landmark in the city since it was installed in 2020,   
   acknowledging she made the move after pressure from the White House.   
      
   Members of one of the country’s oldest Black fraternities gathered at the   
   plaza Sunday and sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is often called the   
   Black national anthem.   
      
   Richard Mattox, a Kappa Alpha Psi member, said the removal is just a setback   
   before a serious comeback.   
      
   “This will always be, because Black lives matter,” Mattox said.   
      
   “We’re not protesting,” he continued. “We recognize the meaning. We   
   recognize why it has to be done. We support the local officials, but we want   
   it to be known: You can erase this, but you cannot erase our history.”   
      
   How DC's Black Lives Matter mural is set to be removed   
   In the first step, bollards that go up and down the plaza in the street were   
   slated to be removed Monday.   
      
   The lettering and the cobblestones now are being removed. Workers were seen at   
   midday Monday using equipment to break up the stones.   
      
   After that, the street will be paved over in asphalt. The plan is to give the   
   plaza two lanes in each direction, as it was before the mural’s installation   
   nearly five years ago.   
      
   The process is being done in phases, starting at K Street NW and moving south   
   toward the White House.   
      
   https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/cannot-erase-our-histor   
   -black-lives-matter-plaza-honored-before-removal-begins-monday/3862736/   
      
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